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• The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Men, Suffering, Doe

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• For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Suffering, Special, Atheism

  "The Faith of a Heretic". Book by Walter Kaufmann, ch. 6, 1961.

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• No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Critics, Extremes, Has Beens

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• When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Men, Rights, Influence

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• It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Views, Different, Gone

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• It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Two, Suffering, Facts

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• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Fate, Punishment, Suffering

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• There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Plato, Men, Average

  Walter Kaufmann (2008). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”, p.151, Princeton University Press

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